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Agreed - I think they mainly get ignored. I mostly see things downvoted that are factually wrong, or just generally abrasive and tone-deaf.
by superb-owl 4y ago
Agreed - I think they mainly get ignored.
I mostly see things downvoted that are factually wrong, or just generally abrasive and tone-deaf.
- Brian_K_White 4y agoI can't know but I think I see a fair amount of downvotes arising from misunderstanding. I am excluding my own downvotes received and given and only thinking of examples where I was a bystander (except that I probably upvoted someone to counter what I thought was undeserved downvotes). I can't know that someone else misunderstood a comment, or that I understood a comment of course, so I just leave my own comment saying "I interpreted that this way...." But I have seen some truely inexplicable torpedoing of the most innocuous comments. I never get an answer to "I don't know why you're downvoted..." Please assume that I know the difference between interesting or valuable and flies my team colors, or at least gave conscious thought to it, in this talk about deserved/undeserved, understood/misunderstood.